Brief Life History of John Joshua
When John Joshua Farmer was born in April 1801, in Grayson, Virginia, United States, his father, Michael Farmer Jr, was 27 and his mother, Alsa Elsie Shockley, was 27. He married Nancy Mary Shockley on 23 May 1826, in Grayson, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Raleigh, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Trap Hill District, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 9 January 1901, in Bolt, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 99, and was buried in Bolt, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States.
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- John L Farmer, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Joshua Farmer - birth: 1801; Grayson, Virginia, United States
- John L Farmer, "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1812 · Monumental Church Built
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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